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Alan Holmes wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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I have researched the topic a bit, and get some contrary advice: from
don't feed until you see flowers to if you don't feed regularly grow
bag toms, you'll get blossom end rot.
Help! Should I feed before I see flowers? Only my totem bush plant is
showing its first.
What about those that have none?

I wanted to ask about feeding as well.

I have some tomato plants growing in pots in the greenhouse, the pots
were
filled with the contents of grow bags, the master of the housr tells me I
should be feeding them, but what with, and how do I feed them, and how
often?

Alan

Proprietary liquid tomato feed is available everywhere here -
supermarkets, garden centres, etc. My understanding is that you need
to feed toms that are grown in pots or grow bags - less so toms that
are in well prepared and manured open soil.
My bottle at home states that I should feed every two weeks - but it
doesn't say when I should start. I have read in some places that I
should start from when flowers appear, and other places seem to
indicate an earlier start.
I am currently feeding every couple of weeks, and watering every couple
of days, as my toms are growing outside in growbags, and we are
currently having a heat/dry wave.
I would like to know if I am doing right or wrong.

I haven't fed tomatoes for years - they grow in greenhouse borders (soil
never changed but scratched in and deposited on by hens during the winter
for the last few years) and in garden plots - four year rotation only, no
feeding as such.

We get a lot of tomatoes - this year I've sown and planted about thirty
plants of different kinds, I'll dry and freeze those fruit which overface us
for immediate consumption. I buy tomatoes very rarely and then only local
ones, even they are nothing like as good as our own :-)

Lots and lots of water though. Daily watering. There are butts all round the
garden and the greenhouse has a perforated hose just under or on the soil,
fed by a butt taking water from the house roof.

I might be doing all the wrong things of course!

Mary

Cat(h)